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Sometimes what feels like betrayal to us is someone else's desperate act of self-preservation. And those watching from the sidelines carry wounds we rarely acknowledge. I just published Letting Go of Your Scissors in 2025 link.medium.com/tHMFaAVOHPb
These are dope graphics 😍
I spent the last 2 yrs building Interhouse to share the fun of Nigerian boarding school with everyone 🇳🇬
Decorate your dorm. Dress up. Find your Roomies.
interhouse.app
It’s Visiting Day: play free for up to 2 hours right now! 18+, everyone welcome. Game in English
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"She's a woman, take it easy with her." "She's Black, let's not push too hard." People mean well but I still find it insulting.
We have earned the right to be human.
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This is awesome and exciting! Can’t wait to try this out.
They said African languages were too fragmented, too complex and too commercially insignificant to build advanced AI for.
We disagreed. So we built it.
64 languages. 166 voices. 3 billion parameters. ONE model.
Today, we are unveiling STORM-Ensemble 3.0, the most capable multilingual speech synthesis model we have built at PlotWeaver.
From Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin to Swahili, Amharic, Wolof, Zulu, Xhosa and dozens more, STORM-Ensemble 3.0 generates speech across 64 languages, with 166 distinct speaker voices.
Every voice you hear is generated by our model, not a prerecorded sample.
But the real breakthrough isn't the numbers.
It's what becomes possible when this technology is in the hands of people who can build with it.
-African filmmakers distributing stories across languages.
-Banks and telcos serving customers in their mother tongues.
-Education platforms reaching more children.
-Developers building voice AI products without starting from scratch.
We are not building AI for African languages simply to prove it can be done. We are building the infrastructure to make our languages commercially viable at global scale.
Next week, I will be speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua about unlocking the Commonwealth's creative potential. This launch is a practical demonstration of that ambition.
Africa must not simply consume the future of AI. We must build, own and shape the infrastructure that powers it.
Watch the video. Listen to the voices. Imagine what's possible.
Introducing STORM-Ensemble 3.0.
PlotWeaver. Build Once. Speak Every Language.
#PlotWeaver #STORMEnsemble #VoiceAI #AfricanLanguages
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This is what happens when people who don’t understand technology make tech policies. How many people are running models on provider-native platforms?
‼️ Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, Sveriges Radio reports.
Officials are to use approved tools like Microsoft Copilot.
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Built for enterprise. Sold to nonprofits.
New field note on MTechlaw:
mtechlaw.substack.com/p/buil…
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X terms are changing. They’re pretty shorter than most T & Cs. Take some time to read to understand what your platform participation means.
Terms of service say you must accept everything to enter. Why can we not accept only some provisions. Why can we not negotiate how long we stay. That is the authority awareness piece.
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Terms of service say you must accept everything to enter. Why can we not accept only some provisions. Why can we not negotiate how long we stay. That is the authority awareness piece.
This “leave the platform”, people say, like that is a plan. It starts to sound like advice you give someone in an abusive relationship. I see academics migrated en masse to Bluesky. I’ve been there, it’s an echo chamber. The landlords still have the land.
Sharing work logins on these AI task platforms can be identity fraud. US CFAA, UK CMA, EU rules, Nigeria Cybercrime Act 2015. Your employer will not thank you. Your lawyer will not either.
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Ireland hosts a lot of the tech HQs for Europe. That is leverage. National law can reach companies that are physically here, even when EU level rules move slowly. We should use it.
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Where are the reports.
When the funding ends, the pile disperses. Safeguarding for the age of AI has to ask who holds the data when the donor is out of the equation.
New field note:
mtechlaw.substack.com/p/wher…
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If I was in charge of regulation I would start with children. No unsupervised AI before thirteen. Supervised until sixteen. I do not think that is extreme. I think it is the minimum.
The Digital Services Act is supposed to police this type of harm but it falls short of capturing what victims actually live with. Accountability needs consequences. A code with no teeth remains a document.
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Collecting evidence is expensive. Public interest researchers get a short window and this harm does not work on a three year grant cycle. Government should fund the long documentation. I said this in the University Times. Still waiting.
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I started a Substack for the nonprofit AI work. Consent, authorisation, transparency. Field notes every two weeks.
First note: After the demo leaves the room.
mtechlaw.substack.com/p/afte…
I keep coming back to who gets to define justice in AI. Right now it is the people who make the system. That is not okay. Ask civil society. Ask the users. Ask the people living with the harm.
Users think the terms of service keeps people out but it locks them in, unwillingly.
I did this work earlier in the year. 565 public Grok NCII cases. We are in September with not much changes.
I wrote about it in The Conversation in March. Digital enclosures. Platforms keep the control and drop the responsibility.
theconversation.com/we-are-i…
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